2015 Hobonichi

This past year, I challenged myself to do a sketch or a painting everyday and in order to track my progress I have chosen to do so on a Hobonichi planner. I wasn't quite sure that the super thin pages would cope but they did and they did so beautifully well.

This year, I have decided to not do this particular challenge but instead, I will take part in any monthly art challenge that I can find. In February, I am going to take part in the #29faces challenge that consists in drawing/painting/sketching one face per day. This is going to be even more of a challenge for me since I'm not that good at drawing (human) faces. I'm really hoping to learn from this and to improve my skills.

For now, here are quite a few pictures of the best sketches I did in my Hobonichi this past year.

You can get your very own Hobonichi here!

Lu Lu's Holiday

A very dear friend of mine, Robert Barber has created this amazing character called Lu Lu. Lu Lu happens to be a blue flamingo. She has a sparkly personality and is not afraid to be herself.

A few weeks ago, she started a tour across Europe and sent some postcards to Bob. Here are a few of them. She has so far visited Germany and Italy.

For more information on Lu Lu (and Bob!), you can check out her blog as well as her Facebook page.

Birds! Birds! Birds!

Since my daughter started to get interested in flamingos, she kept asking me to draw her as many flamingos as humanly possible. Here are a few ones I managed to keep:

Flamingo Pirate! Invitation for my daughter's birthday

Picture I did for a colouring book

Failed attempt at painting a nebula...

While the flamingo is my daughter's favourite bird, mine are the crow and the raven...

Very first attempt at drawing a crow/raven

Done for a writer friend of mine

Done on the computer using Gimp

Earlier crows

Hamlet crow (I did some extensive research on Renaissance ruffs. I am now an expert!)

Prehistoric crow

In my futile quest to attract crows, I have attracted all sorts of smaller birds (wrens, mostly) by throwing seeds every day to feed them. Unfortunately, things have gone out of hand!...

First comic strip!